Labour has retreated from another plan to accelerate decarbonization with a deadline date.
I can understand the pressure to do this. Such changes always cost money. They may reduce he income of some businesses, which generally oppose the change by cherry-picking and exaggeration. Once a government decides to keep the country poor by allowing some individuals to be giga-rich, it keeps encountering a "need" to abandon the attempt.
Pushing for requiring new hybrid cars to have chargers.
Can the bully silence the US mainstream media? It looks like he is already succeeding.
*Firms that donated to Republican party avoided tariffs in [the corrupter]'s first term.*
Republicans don't miss a chance to extract the moral equivalent of a bribe.
The Internet was a mistake.
The inhabitants of City Number Two know better. They realize that - out of doors at least - privacy has always been an illusion. They know that anyone in town can tune into that camera on the lamppost over there ... and they don't much care. They perceive what really matters ... that they live in a town where the police are efficient, respectful, and above all accountable. A place where homes are sacrosanct, but out on the street any citizen, from the richest to the poorest, can walk both safely and with the godlike power to zoom at will from vantage point to vantage point, viewing all the lively wonders of the vast but easily spanned village the metropolis has become - as if by some magic power it had turned into a city not of men and women but of birds.
Sometimes, citizens of City Number Two find it tempting to wax nostalgic about the old days, before there were so many cameras ... or before TV invaded the home ... or before the telephone and automobile. But for the most part, City Two's denizens know those times are gone, never to return. Above all, one thing makes life bearable - the surety that each person knows what is going on and has a say in what will happen next. A say equal to any billionaire or chief of police.
So, how has that been working out? Feeling all that liberty, everybody? Having a rousing success using good speech to drive out bad speech? Noting happily that correct and true information rises to the top in the Marketplace of Ideas?
Good, good.
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She said they stopped and sat on Madison Street, north of Ogden Avenue, with the eagle for about a half hour after putting out the call for help. The raptor twice found enough energy to briefly fly, the second time into a wooded area where it was later found and captured by handlers from Midwest Bird Collision Monitors.
"It definitely was having trouble flying, and I knew it was something neurological, which is a sign of bird flu," Meyers said. "I wasn't surprised to find out that was what it was."
The following day, the eagle was euthanized at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County's DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center after it was suspected of being infected with bird flu, according to Beth Schirott, a spokeswoman for the Forest Preserve District.
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The US army engineering corps excavated Camp Century in 1959 around 200km from the coast of Greenland, which was then a county of Denmark. [...]
Project Iceworm, presented to the US chiefs of staff in 1960, aimed to use Camp Century's frozen tunnels to test the feasibility of a huge launch site under the ice, close enough to fire nuclear missiles directly at the Soviet Union. [...] A system of about 4,000 kilometres of icy underground tunnels and chambers extending over an area around three times the size of Denmark were to have housed 600 ballistic missiles in clusters six kilometres apart, trained on Moscow and its satellites.
Eventually the engineers realised Iceworm would not work. The constantly moving ice was too unstable and would have deformed and perhaps even collapsed the tunnels.
From 1964 Camp Century was used only intermittently, and three years later it was abandoned altogether, the departing soldiers taking the reaction chamber of the nuclear generator with them.
They left the rest of the camp's infrastructure -- and its biological, chemical and radioactive waste -- where it was, on the assumption it would be "preserved for eternity" by the perpetually accumulating snow and ice. [...]
The researchers studied US army documents and drawings to work out how deep the camp and its waste -- estimated to include 200,000 litres of diesel fuel, similar quantities of waste water and unknown amounts of radioactive coolant and toxic organic pollutants such as PCBs -- were buried.
Ignore the recent breathless reporting about NASA having "discovered" the "secret" base, that's all bullshit. However, in 2017 there was a research expedition to the site to see how bad it is. And campcentury.org seems to be a repository of people still doing new science on the ice samples retrieved in the 1960s!
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So one of these kids was poking around where they shouldn't, figured out how to turn on the fog machine, and then kept their shit together enough to quietly and discretely tell all the other kids, "Come check this out."
I need to find out who this hacker was, because in five years I'm hiring them and in ten years they'll be running this joint.
We've already completed the eight $1 million donations listed above to help those most immediately in need. Within the next five years, half of our family wealth will support longer term efforts. There is no single solution, so let's work together. I will gladly advise and empower others working towards the same goal.
Two tourists from London went to Dubai with their families, and had a holiday romance. Then one was arrested because the other was not legally "old enough".
This is one of many reasons to stay away from Dubai.
*Burning waste is not the way to move the UK towards a circular economy.*
A Washington Post editorial cartoonist quit because, for the first time, she was told that a political topic was off limits.
The topic that was forbidden was that of billionaire executives going to Mar-a-lago to swear fealty to the corrupter.
More examples: Amazon, and "Open" "AI", have joined the parade of big companies that are donating to the glorification of the corrupter -- what the cartoonist was going to criticize. These donations are not, strictly speaking, bribes, since they don't go to the corrupter personally. But they are the moral equivalent of bribes. They demonstrates how the corrupter has made corruption normal.
The Taliban are inviting foreign tourists, and there is no sign that they refuse in revulsion against the total oppression and segregation of women.
perl -le 'print 0 + ("ABCDE" =~ m/ABCF|BCDE|C(G)/);' Changing nearly any character, including the C before the G, or removing the parens, makes it match.
Jan 6 is a date that will live in infamy, unless the wrecker intimidates commemoration of it.
We need a name to help each other remember it by. The only one I can think of is "Coup defeat day". Watch out: the wrecker and the muskrat will try to celebrate the coup as heroism in a perverted idea of patriotism.
Anyway, what's the deal with every single paperback book released in the 1990s having a barcode on the back cover that is useless for scanning? Most of the time (not always) there's a second barcode on the inside front cover with the actual ISBN. What brain-genius thought this was a good idea?
Insult to injury: the useless barcode on the back cover usually has the actual ISBN printed above it. This scanner app will not OCR and scan it. FUN FACT, the name of the font it is printed in is called OCR-A. Just apropos of nothing. I feel certain that this is a task to which my pocket supercomputer could rise.
My scanning experience so far: Hardbacks: almost all scan. Paperbacks from the 1990s: 80% have the super-sekrit second barcode, the rest have only the useless barcode. Anything earlier than that: nothing at all, have fun manually transcribing a 14-digit number in a 6pt font, a task clearly beyond the capabilities of any modern computer. (I'm not doing that.)
Stupid thing can't even scan a barcode unless you come at it horizontally. WHAT.
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